[Mase]

To put it simply, we manufacture more today than at any other time in our history. Your original comment (post #10) suggested that we don't produce much here these days. That's absurd. If that wasn't your point then I apologize. Of course, if that's the case, then I have no idea what your point is/was.

Maybe your point was that we should practice fair trade rather than free trade. If so, then I suppose you should define the word fair because the only true form of fair trade is free trade.

[familyop]

"To put it simply, we manufacture more today than at any other time in our history."

...if we include the foreign manufacturing owned by a very small number of Americans. Thus, statistics for such arguments come from dishonest methods. We're all well aware that most of the products available to us do come from foreign countries.

George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln and many others like them were in favor of fair trade--even by way of tariffs, when necessary..

There's nothing patriotic or "free" about funding military buildups in communist nations and preferring communist slaves as employees while hating your own American neighbors.